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Marc Clifton wrote: But the damn thing should be fixed True, especially when it's "third party" (they should fix it)!
Marc Clifton wrote: Or is it "Spelt" Spelled, unless you're into wheat[^]
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Either is correct, unless you're using American English, when it's spelled .
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Marc Clifton wrote: Or is it "Spelt", because that's what the Brits and other more civilized people would probably use.
Certainly always has been in the part of Britain I grew up in. Spelt and spelled are both used as past participles, although spelt feels more natural to me. Yes, spelt is also a type of wheat.
See also smelt - past participle of smell, a type of fish, and an ore extraction process.
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Grammar is overateed!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Grammar is overateed!
Sure, but speeling don't matter at all.
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In our company, the coding guidelines document (BTW, absolutely terrible) is called "Codding guidelines". And this is not typo, the document author thinks it is OK.
Don't be surprised, we are working with nuggets.
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Did you mean "Coddling guideline"?!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Did you mean "Coddling guideline"?!
Probably, on the next sprint.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Did you mean "Coddling guideline"
Just what I was thinking!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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VisualAssistX has a nice Rename feature which is type and scope wise. It helps a lot (sadly it's not free but the personal license is not expensive).
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Visual Studio does it too!
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I installed VAX when I was forced to use VS6 because it was the only IDE my boss was able to use. I admit that from VS2008 onwards it's less useful, yet it has some features that became absolutely paramount for me.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Unfortunately, this is 3rd party software that I can't fix.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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We have the word Cancel and its past tense in our domain.
11 years ago the standard (in US) was to spell the past tense as Canceled.
Now, you'll find people and software spelling it as, Cancelled.
We even have discussions with younger devs saying that it is mis-spelled in the older versions. Oy!
It's like the Master Grammarian-Spellers gave in to the oft mis-spelled version and said, "Screw it, you can speel it either way."
This must be how irregardless came to have the same meaning as regardless.
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"Cancelled" is, and always has been, the correct spelling. The Americans use the discount version of English with several letters missing from words, such as what should be a double "L" is replaced by a single, and the worst offence replacing "ou" with "o", for example "color" instead of the correct "colour" leading to the correct statement, "There is no honour or valour in America".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Let the Spelling Wars begin!!
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Do y'all pronounce the words kul-owr or kul-er, on-owr or on-er, val-owr or val-er?
No ow, no need for that 'u' in the word.
Granted, as a Southerner we do pronounce some words, um, differently, than you would expect.
There is a town in Northwest Georgia whose name is spelled Armuchee. Correctly pronounced, meaning the way the locals pronounce their town name, it is are-mer-chee. They add an extra R in the word. Atlanta news stations hate when it gets in the news because they always mispronounce it.
I don't press a button, I mash it.
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"Colour" is pronounced "Kuller".
Whenever I see "Color" I always think "Co-law" - that's why you need the "u".
Being married to a woman from Oklahoma I am used to the weird pronunciations. Apparently Jaguar cars are made by a company called "Jag-wor" and atomic power stations are "nu-klar"!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: There is a town in Northwest Georgia whose name is spelled Armuchee. Correctly pronounced, meaning the way the locals pronounce their town name, it is are-mer-chee. They add an extra R in the word. Atlanta news stations hate when it gets in the news because they always mispronounce it.
So know I know where all those missing "r"s in Boston went.
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I've got a few mispelled database coloumn names that have been pissing me off for years...easier to remember the misspellings than to fix it!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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As a Brit I have to put up with Color, Initalized etc. All of which are obviously incorrectly spelt.
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American's have improved the English language. For example, we added the words "vacation" and "yard" to distinguish between a holiday and a vacation and between a garden and a yard. Just two of the many improvements we have made.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: we added the words "vacation"
Just a shame you get so little time to appreciate that word.
List of minimum annual leave by country - Wikipedia[^]:
USA:
77% of private employers offer paid vacation to their employees.
77% of private employers give their employees paid time off during public holidays.
The average number of paid vacation days offered by private employers is 10 days after 1 year of service, 14 days after 5 years, 17 days after 10 years, and 20 days after 20 years.
UK:
Employees are entitled to 28 total working days of annual leave. These often include the 8 public/bank holidays which otherwise would be unpaid.
Many employers will offer 25 days of paid annual leave in addition to the 8 recognised bank holidays.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Just a shame you get so little time to appreciate that word. Indeed.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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